52 MALVACEA. PARITIUM. 
§ 5. Sabdariffa; leaves of the involucel more or less united from the base to 
the middle ; calyx not inflated ; carpels many-seeded ; seeds glabrous. 
188. (17) H. Sabdariffa (Linn.:) annual, glabrous : lower leaves undivided ; 
upper palmately 3-5-lobed, cuneate and entire at the base: lobes oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminated, toothed: flowers axillary, solitary, on very short 
pedicels: involucel-segments about 12.—Cav. diss. 3. p. 170, and 6. p. 351. 
t. 198. f. 1; DC. prod. 1. p. 453; Spr. syst. 3. p. 107; Wall.! L. n. 1909; 
Wight! cat. n. 218.— Pluk. t. 6. f. 2. 
VII. PARITIUM. St Hil. 
Calyx surrounded by a 10-14-toothed or cleft involucel, shorter than the ca- 
lyx. Petals not auricled. Staminiferous tube 5-toothed, naked. Style 5- 
cleft, with 5 stigmas, exserted beyond the staminiferous tube. Carpels united 
into a 5-celled, 5-valved, loculicidal capsule ; margin of the valves introflexed, 
the capsule thus appearing imperfectly 10-celled; cells several-seeded.— 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire, crenated, or lobed ; 1 or 3 of the nerves be- 
neath glandular at the base. Stipules broad, ovate. Peduncles 1-flowered, 
axillary, or terminal and bibracteolate. 
189. (1) P. tiliaceum (St Hil. :) leaves erenulated, sometimes quite entire, 
roundish-cordate with a sudden aeumination, 7-11 nerved ; upper side gla- 
brous, under hoary with pubescence: stipules ovate: involucel 10-lobed.— 
Wight! cat. n. 216.—Hibiscus tiliaceus, Linn.; DC. prod. 1. p. 454; Spr. 
syst. 3. p. 106 ; Roxb. hort. Bengh. in E. I. C. mus. t. 1500 ; Wall. ! L. n. 1912. 
, —H. similis, B/ume.—H. elatus, circinnatus, and Guinensis, DC. 1. c; Spr. 
syst. 3. p. 107.—Rumph. Amb. 2. t. 73; Rheed. Mal. 1. t. 30; Pluk. t. 388 
f. 55; t. 118. f. 3. Malabar and Travancore. it 
_As Roxburgh (Hort. Bengh. p. 5.) quotes the figure in the Hort. Mal. for 
his H. tortuosus (Wall. L. n. 1913), probably that also is not distinct. 
* 190 (2) P. tricuspis (G. Don:) leaves hoary beneath, rounded at the — 
base, with 3 divaricating lanceolate slightly toothed or entire lobes: stipules — 
ovate: involucel 9-10 lobed.— Wight! cat. n. 217.— Hibiscus tricuspus, Banks; — 
mme 1. p. 458 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 106 ; Cav. diss. 8. t. 55. f. 2 ; Wall.! L.™ 
LEM affrms that this was introduced into India from the Society 
nds. 
VIII. DECASCHISTIA. W.& A. 
Calyx 5-cleft, surrounded by an involucel of 10 leaves more or less "ie 
equally united at the base. Petals not auricled. Style exserted beyond the — 
staminiferous column, 10-cleft, with 10 stigmas: segments hairy. Carpels - : 
united into a 10-celled, 10-valved, loculicidal capsule; valves attached by 3 
the base to a short conical 10-angled central column. Seeds solitary in : 
cell, naked.—A shrub, Leaves coriaceous, ovate, entire, or slightly lobed, : 
coarsely toothed, velvety on both sides with a short dense compact tomen- - 
tum, whitish beneath ; middle nerve beneath with a glandular pore near 1s 
base. oS 
Calyx segments triangular-acuminated, with one dorsal nerve and two others | 
forming the margins and uniting, each with the marginal one of the contiguous 5è- — 
pal, and decurrent along the line of junction of the sepals ; seeds glabrous. : 
191. (1) D. erotonifolia (W. & A.)—Wight! cat. n. 215.— Hibiscus eroto- 
